Jerusalem
Not that I'm making a habit of shooting up my own affiliation or anything. smile.gif But yesterdays battle:

Printed on 24th May 2005, Star Date 205.21.2

Location:
Straddle (177) - {Delta,7}

DTR SHIP Shadow's Fall (3527)

Targeting DTR Starcross (29227):
Locked Target

Attacking DTR Starcross (29227)
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Round 1: 10 Photon Cannons
- 10 hits - 449 [900] damage - 100%
Round 2: 10 Photon Cannons
- 10 hits - 511 [900] damage - 100%
Round 3: 10 Photon Cannons
- 10 hits - 505 [900] damage - 100%
Round 4: 10 Photon Cannons
- 10 hits - 496 [900] damage - 100%

Now, this is an IMP ship that had been boarded, or, FET maybe. But, here's the combat settings for the Shadow's Fall:

>|-Target
>Lists-----------------------------------------------------------------|
>|
>|
>| Naval officer in command, positions can be added to any list.
>|
>|
>|
>| SPACE ENEMY LIST SUPPORT LIST DEFEND LIST GROUND ENEMY LIST
>|
>| All GCS(10) All DTR(58) All DTR(58) None
>|
>| All IMP(51)
>|
>| All GTT(52)
>|
>| All FET(56)
>|
>|
>|
>|-Do Not Target
>List-----------------------------------------------------------|
>|
>|
>| All DTR(58)
>|

As you can see, DNT DTR was set. So, are the locked/targetted enemy lists over-riding the DNT lists?
Ted
It was a FET ship with hardly any equipment left.
I would like to think it was poetic justice that you shot at it after you had captured it biggrin.gif

Definitely seems like a bug though! rolleyes.gif
Gandolph
your target was locked

you wont break it unless ordered.

this happened to me unfortunately and resulted in the CNF blowing up a DTR ship i had captured, the GTT kept shooting at it for a further few days meaning i couldnt move it ohmy.gif

still thats battles for you and the old "friendly fire" problem,

so its not a bug...............
Jerusalem
Right, so basically if there is boarding going on in a battle, it makes a lot of sense for ships to clear their locked target lists every day, otherwise accidents of this kind can and will happen?

I'm happy enough with it being a fog-of-war friendly-fire type incident, because in huge space battles, I can see how that happens. If it was just a smaller battle, like, 3 or 4 ships, well maybe then it would seem a little less realistic for friendly-fire to occur. But, smaller battle, more time to issue the clear locked target lists order.

I was just surprised it over-ruled the DNT list though.
Gandolph
yes your right clear locked lists when boarding.

even if 3 or 4 ships, a ships captain is firing at a position because he has been ordered, a person in the military will not break the order until told to do so.

thats how i would see it, ive just got to hope the GTT can coomunicate a bit better next time biggrin.gif even morse would do...............
Romanov
Alternatively to clearing target lists you can select Retarget options to retarget every day. This would drop the attack
Andy
I assume retarget every day and clear locked lists would also drop the pin if there was one?
Gandolph
yes